Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
CARSON MCCULLERSThe human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them.
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I was like a cat always climbing the wrong tree.
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She stood in front of the mirror a long time, and finally decided she either looked like a sap or else she looked very beautiful. One or the other.
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And in addition to this our country was founded on what should have been a great, true principle – the freedom, equality, and rights of each individual. Huh! And what has come of that start?
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What are the sources of an illumination? To me, they come after hours of searching and keeping my soul ready. Yet they come in a flash, as a religious phenomenon.
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But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes.
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This fear is one of the horrors of an author’s life. Where does work come from? What chance, what small episode will start the chain of creation?
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His own life seemed so solitary, a fragile column supporting nothing amidst the wreckage of the years.
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It was better to be in a jail where you could bang the walls than in a jail you could not see.
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The memories of childhood have a strange shuttling quality, and areas of darkness ring the spaces of light.
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How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?
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The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.
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the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.
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But you haven’t never loved God nor even nair person. You hard and tough as cowhide. But just the same I knows you. This afternoon you going to roam all over the place without never being satisfied.
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